Joaquin Phoenix leaps into crowd to fight heckler
He jumped off the stage during a short performance at the LIV nightclub in the early hours of yesterday morning and confronted an audience member who was heckling him. Security guards dragged him back and escorted him away.
It is unknown whether the confrontation — and his pledge to quit acting and start rapping — was real or a put-on, but actor Casey Affleck recorded the performance on camera. In October, Phoenix’s publicist confirmed he was making the career switch. In January he performed at a Las Vegas nightclub and then made a strange appearance on David Letterman’s Late Show. Actor Ben Stiller lampooned that appearance at the Oscars. Hundreds of people packed the nightclub at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on Wednesday night.
